[mythtv-users] Anyone else having problems ripping new movies?

[Scot L. Harris]

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 04:49, Peter Valdemar Morch wrote:
> Scot L. Harris webid-at-cfl.rr.com |Lists| wrote:
> > I would settle for getting it to work on my older movies.  :)
> > 
> > One of the last major issues I have with my setup.  
> > 
> > Unable to play a DVD or import one.  
> 
> I most often do a binary copy of the DVDs rather than a "rip". And then 
> play the binary copy of the dvd. Something like:
> 
>  > dd if=/dev/dvd of=/tmp/copy_of.dvd bs=2048
>  > xinev --auto-scan dvd dvd:///tmp/copy_of.dvd/
> 
> Or you may do that at a friend's house where you know his setup works.
> 
> Can you play DVDs with just regular xine? Outside of Myth? With Mplayer?
> 
> That may help you separate whether it is a DVD hardware problem or a 
> xine software problem.... I actually had hardware problems that went 
> away when I replaced the physical DVD drive...
> 
> Peter

My first thought was to try xine.  Have used that previously on a laptop
just fine.  

On the MythTV box xine is currently not installed.  When I went to
install it I found that the repositories it points to do not list it. 
Appears that after following the guides the system only points to the
ATRPMS repository.  Will have to spend some time tonight figuring out
which repository I should point to and if that will cause me any
problems.

I think this will be the first step.  Then I can figure out how to get
mythtv to play the DVD.

-- 
Scot L. Harris
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